In fact I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home rode horses at their ranch and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

On one issue at least men and women agree they both distrust women.

The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton the founder of this newspaper insisted on it.

It is unfortunate considering that enthusiasm moves the world that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts foreign ideas alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.